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Topic starter 23/01/2025 6:17 pm
Been snowboarding since 87 have a bunch of grey hair and a lot of time riding in MT and Fernie BC before I moved to WV for School and somehow have remained here for over 20 years.
My experience with Jame's videos started earlier this year.I loved the snowbank lean and the fact no kittens ere harmed aspect of. his instruction. I forwarded the 101 video to my wife who loves to challenge herself and work on her technique. to my surprise she played the video on the 2hr drive to our favorite local mtn, Timberline in Davis WV.
She practiced the tray drill and also reaching for her front knee. She's not super fast but works hard and is out there riding, never did I think we'd be snowboarding past our fifth decade.
Posting this video because I absolutely love watching her work harder to improve and grow at everything she does in life. she is working the tray drill, now I have to help her find a way to carve those turns instead skid. it was a hard beat up end of the day slope/run.
This topic was modified 1 month ago by Highliner
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23/01/2025 10:44 pm
Welcome to the forum @highliner
Prescription for your fine lady is the J-Turn for sure. Her toeside rotational position is decent but then she looses it in the heelside. She will need to maintain that rotation relative to the board as she turns. She's bringing the board around and her hips end up facing the toeside edge on every heelside turn. The board swings around but her shoulders and hips stay put, facing down the fall line.
Old habits die hard. She will need to learn a new way to initiate her turns: by angulating the board instead of pivoting it. J-Turn is meant to correct this common error. On Toeside for example, we initiate by dropping the knees to the snow thereby kicking the board up (and raising that back arm to counterbalance/ keep the shoulders level/ reach for the heel edge with the front hand - as a wise old man once said...)
Remind her to maintain her hips and shoulders in line with her front foot (or facing the nose of the board if she can stretch that far) rather than facing down the fall line as her board pivots from toe to heel and back to toe. That is to say, maintain the position of the hips relative to the board, not relative to the fall line as skiers and skidders are taught to do.
Also, hard to tell for sure but her stance angles may need to be steeper. 27/12 at a minimum, 27/18 if it's not uncomfortable.
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Topic starter 25/01/2025 7:38 pm
Thank you JC, She read through your tips and applied them yesterday, She only took a few runs so we didn't get a video. She was miffed at me because it was the last run of the day on her first day of the season, so all her characteristics were on full display.
We will work on fewer skids and more trenches. hopefully she can watch the Turn Video before we get on the hill.
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